Ben Gracewood

"But the preferred option comes with a price tag of more than half a billion." Oh no! We couldn't possibly run hourly trains between two of the North Island's three biggest cities for a price tag as steep as *checks notes* 1/7th the cost of a motorway to save a few minutes on the drive to Northland

There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!

Found some good New Zealand stickers. Cc @swiftonsecurity.com

OK if everyone who hangs out with gang members has to resign, let's do friends of pedophiles next.

Am I losing my mind or does National promise to put financial literacy in the curriculum at every election?

Almost as if they were intentionally given an impossible task, and the government openly breached the Bill of Rights in order to suppress voter turn out This is coup shit, and media REALLY should have taken a MUCH stronger, consistent line on what the National coalition has done here

Make sure you’re enrolled to vote before the sun sets on Sunday! vote.nz

Alternate headline: "Labour reckons National's crime and justice policies are fine." Confession: I wasn't super convinced that NZHerald was biased, but now I'm much more sure.

This is literally scandalous. We need a royal commission into this shit, rather than investigating again just how well the economy was propped up during covid.

Simeon Brown’s dismissal of any concern & horrendously ill advised ‘no one was affected’ comment yesterday alone should be bringing a govt down

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

We must rid ourselves of this fucked up one-term clowncar.

UB240

He played a socialist anthem to his daughter every morning.

This should lose National the election #NZPol

Did Luxon seriously try to invoke the name of Saint Dolly Parton in a debate!?

All of a sudden, Labour's 3Waters starts to look damn good. I'd like to send my water bill to Taxpayers not-a-union for those b@stard5 to pay... www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

my hero hayden (all his webworm pieces here fyi: www.webworm.co/hayden/)

I knew @haydendonnell.bsky.social before he was famous.

this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings

The absolute worst possible version of this service is incredibly popular. Imagine a decent electric set that ran all the way tthrough the CRL 🤯

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

One of the most incredible Bathurst finishes after the least eventful race on record. The mountain delivers.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

I presume we’re withdrawing our ambassador from the USA and cutting off economic ties?

I wrote you a 47 point plan for small businesses because I didn’t have time to write a 3 point plan.

Me yelling at the tv: “BRING UP THE FERRY!” #nzpol

”You’re definitely not John Key”

68% Hipkins 32% Luxon #nzpol

just sitting around at home thinking WHERE’s MY FUCKING FERRIES YOU DUMB FUCKS?

First ever talk in New Zealand and it's on Halloween 🦇🎃 Thanks to the good people at @spokescanterbury.bsky.social for pulling this together. Really looking forward to it! events.humanitix.com/shifting-the...